You'll find in this complimentary report from Target Marketing, a breakdown of key segmentation areas, fundamental questions to ask to formulate effective segmentation plans, a six-step road map to a comprehensive segmentation process, three segmentation pitfalls to avoid, and more.

Robust Data Management Platforms drive intimate customer experiences.
You know the importance of identifying your best customer segments and treating them right. You also know that takes a ton of work. But it’s work that we can help you accomplish with our integrated and secure Data Management Platform (DMP). By using Adobe Audience Manager, our DMP offering, you'll aggregate data from all your sources to better understand your current customer segments, while we also help you identify new audiences to target.
The new Forrester Wave™: Data Management Platforms, Q2 2017 says “Adobe was a DMP Forrester Wave leader in 2013 and 2015, and continues to set the pace in this Forrester Wave.” See where we receive the highest scores and why we are named a Leader in this report.

The experience is your product.
In a world of infinite choices, customer experience is the last true differentiator. The optimal shopping experience happens when the right content is
presented to a customer at precisely the right time, no matter where they choose to engage. Read 'The Path of Experience' to learn the critical
capabilities needed to drive seamless commerce experiences that keep customers coming back for more.
Read the guide to learn:
– The role of dynamic merchandising in engaging customers
– Steps to create compelling customer experiences using audience segmentation and personalization
– Ways to scale customer experiences to create powerful connections, no matter the device or channel

One of the key objectives of Adobe’s current advertising campaign is to explode the myth that ‘managing websites is hell’. We believe that in this day and age, the idea that website management is a nightmare should be a thing of the past.

A tool for finance leaders to unify disparate customer data with financial and strategic ROI
If you’ve found yourself sweating in a smoky billiard room, wondering what role customer data should play in finance—as well as in your company’s long-term strategy—this eBook will help you hone your pool shark skills.
Inside, you’ll find insights about….
• How to identify patterns in your customer portfolio, and why it matters.
• Avoiding four critical data billiard blunders.
• Key questions to ask while you’re segmenting your data.
• How to tell if your portfolio segmentation strategy is working with the right reporting.
This eBook will help you navigate the crowded billiard room of customer data and how you can use it to drive cross-functional value for your team.

Resistance to change is futile. Financial services are becoming more embedded in the banking customer’s everyday life, driving unprecedented levels of change across the industry. The unfolding digital economy is ushering a new era of technology adoption in banking. From cloud to open banking APIs, these play a defining role in enabling banks to create new digital products and services, refresh the bank branch, find new customer segments, and monetize underutilized data and information assets.

In the last few years, a wave of digital technologies changed the banking landscape - social/ mobile altered the way banks engage with customers, analytics enabled hyper personalized offerings by making sense of large datasets, Cloud technologies shifted the computing paradigm from CapEx to OpEx, enabling delivery of business processes as services from third-party platforms.
Now, a second wave of disruption is set to drive even more profound changes - including robotic process automation (RPA), AI, IOT instrumentation, blockchain distributed ledger and shared infrastructure, and open banking platforms controlled by application programming interfaces (API). As these technologies become commercialized, and demand increases for digitally-enabled services, we will see unprecedented disruption, as non-traditional banks and fintechs rush into all segments of the banking space. This whitepaper examines key considerations for banks as they explore value in the emerging Digital 2.0 world.

Personalization. It’s about the hottest topic out there for digital marketers.
If you’re going to do it, though, you need to know with which customers you should start your personalization efforts. Which means you need to know which of your customers are most valuable—not always an easy task.
This white paper will teach you how to identify your most valuable customers, create a personalized experience for them, optimize that experience, and begin the process again with another customer segment. Also included are three real-life examples of companies that found their most valuable customers, focused on personalizing their relationships with them, and drove additional business, increased customer loyalty and improved customer retention.

Cisco commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Cisco TrustSec software-defined segmentation. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Cisco on their organizations.
To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with TrustSec, Forrester interviewed four customers that had deployed TrustSec. The TrustSec software-defined segmentation solution simplifies the provisioning and management of highly secure access to network services and applications. Unlike access control mechanisms that work on network topology, TrustSec policies use logical grouping. Highly secure access is consistently maintained even as resources are moved in mobile and virtualized networks. A more detailed description of TrustSec is available on the Cisco TrustSec Overview page in this document.

Finance’s immediate concerns--cash flow, profit margins, customer satisfaction, retention and investor relationships—focus your attention on the finance imperatives—navigating risk effectively and identifying opportunities. Improved cash flow, collaboration and profit are all potential outcomes of wielding your pool cue of portfolio segmentation in just the right way.
We’ve given you some pro tips on what to avoid, as well as some
effective tips for winning at this highly complex game. Download now!

The digital transformation (DX) of industries is well under way — a transformation that is enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT allows organizations to reinvent existing industry processes, augment how they engage with their customers, and accelerate the speed at which they deliver their products and services. This white paper looks at how these digital strategies facilitated by the IoT are reshaping those industry segments that are both asset rich and focused on services rather than products. The paper then explores IoT scenarios that hold great promise and how companies are approaching investment to optimize business outcomes.

Learn new ways of analyzing digitally connected customers-from dynamic segmentation to the use of advanced analytics. With predictive tools, banks can analyze transactions and spending behavior to better understand customer needs, anticipate life events, and provide a unique experience.

The first event in the Partnering with Certainy Webinar Series, "Customer Demands at the Edge."
Trends like IoT are driving customer experience expectations in a way that demands resiliency in local edge environments. As a result, we’re seeing a rise of edge computing (compute power coming out of the cloud and into the access layer). Customer demands manifest themselves differently based on things like company size and segment. For example, a retail customer’s business imperatives might look different from a doctor’s office. But one thing remains constant: A standardized, redundant, and repeatable physical infrastructure can protect the availability of these now-critical access-layer IT assets.
APC by Schneider Electric has:
The solutions you need to deliver a standardized, redundant, & repeatable infrastructure to your customers
The tools you need to configure them,
The alliances & certifications you trust & rely on,
The program to make it profitable.
Fill out your information and click "Register" to watch the kick off our Partnering with Certainty Webinar Series, “Customer Demands at the Edge: Always On, Always Connected.” This webinar originally aired on October 5th, 2017.

Attendees will learn how Arnold Worldwide combined advertising acumen with laser-like analytics to help a big brand build a comprehensive marketing strategy, refine its tactics, and help them understand not only who, within their industry are the best customers but also how to identify growth potential in key segments that are aligned with its business goals.

Today’s meandering customer journeys take place over multiple channels and devices. Each interaction creates a stream of digital information, leaving marketers with a growing pile of data. But, with data seemingly everywhere, why are so many marketers still feeling like there’s not a drop to drink?
Leaders Have a Data Strategy and Enable More Teams with Data
In this research report from June 2017, Econsultancy surveyed more than 700 marketing and analytics executives at consumer brands to better understand how data factors into marketing strategy — and daily decision making.
Two-thirds of leading marketers — those who outperformed their top business goal — say they currently have a documented data and analytics strategy.
In this report, you’ll also learn how leaders have built data-driven cultures and why they are more likely to use:
digital analytics to optimize user experience in real time
audience-level data to personalize customer experience
customer-level data to segment and r

The terms "customer segmentation" and "customer predictive modeling" are often used interchangeably, however, they're very different and support different business objectives. This paper explains why both are required to effectively compete in today's customer-centric marketing landscape.

The all-flash array (AFA) market has undergone significant maturation over the past two years. A high percentage of customers have already committed to an "all flash for primary storage" strategy, and every customer interviewed for this study was among those. In 2017, AFAs will drive over 80% of all primary storage revenue. All of the established storage vendors have entered this space, and there are several start-ups with over $100 million in revenue. With this level of market maturation, multiple segments have developed within the primary flash array space. There are systems targeted for dedicated application deployment, there are systems specifically for web-scale applications, and there are systems intended for dense mixed workload consolidation. These latter systems are driving most of the AFA revenue, and they aspire to become the primary storage platforms of record for enterprises of all sizes. This study evaluates the suitability of 10 vendors' AFA platforms for dense mixed ent

Regular customer experience solutions just segment and stereotype their customers and perform in a sort of action-reaction, request-response manner, rather than being instantly responsive.
Being responsive means adjusting to each additional interaction and
observed behavior, and making every action, every click, every scroll,
every email, every second spent on your app part of a larger conversation.
You need to have the systems in place that can effectively engage a customer in that conversation and not just analyze it with historical data or after the fact.

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